12 SEPTEMBER 1924, page 13

Stybarrow Crag, Ullswater.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, —May I be allowed to thank Lady Mabel Howard for her letter referring to mine of the previous week ? It is evident that she, as owner of......

The Life Of Tom Hughes.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — With the help of the surviving members of his family I am now completing the biography of Tom Hughes of Tom Brown's Schooldays and the......

The Bank Rate.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, — The Council of this Association have watched the controversy in your journal on the monetary policy of this Dountry, and your strong......

Poetry.

LOST. WHEN the boy knocked at our door, looking in, We remember now that we spoke to him timidly, Kept him waiting in the porch, While we busied ourselves within over a fitting......

Rural Reconstruction.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is ill work criticizing critics, but the importance to our civilization of the problem of rural reconstruction must serve as my excuse.......

The Books Of The 'nineties.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I hope my friend Mr. Symons will tolerate my demur to his perpetuation of the heresy that Walter Pater belongs to the 'nineties, and "......